Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 3, Episode 2 – Who Did Your Neighbor Vote For?
How do you live out the ideal of Spirituality? It might be better to ask, first, how you live in relation to — and in relationship with — others.
Category: Meditations
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 3, Episode 1 – Anima Technica Vacua
It’s the difference between looking at constellations in an app, and looking at a sky full of stars.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 10 – Origins and Ends
No, not origins in the sense of science. Rather, in the sense of people. And philosophy.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 9 – Reserves of Empathy
As we continue the discussion with Chlorthos Dragon, we discuss the need for parents to be able to show empathy. Also something about Forge of Virtue’s Test of Love.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 8 – Virtues and Anti-Virtues, Sheep and Goats
Ultima doesn’t adequately represent all of the opposition that exists to each Virtue. Not that it handles anti-virtue badly…it just handles it incompletely.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 7 – Virtue and Pharisees and Laws, Oh My!
In which we take a look at the origins of the Eight Virtues of Ultima lore, and discuss the intersection of virtue and law.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 6 – Love, Compassion, and Mercy
The Ultima series depicts love in a very philosophically interesting way, one which is very much in line with real-world ideals of mercy.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 5 – It’s Oddly Fitting to Discuss Violence During Holy Week
In which we wrap up the discussion with Paul and look at violence in a real-world context.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 4 – Gameplay, Violence, and VR
What starts as a discussion about story and gameplay mechanics morphs into discussion of the depiction of violence in video games, and how violence might end up being depicted in VR.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 3 – What If All the Starbucks Closed?
Is post-secondary education all it’s cracked up to be? Is STEM education the be-all and end-all of education? Why can’t China make ball-point pens?
